This film focuses on the interdisciplinary project "Rock Art and Archaeology: Investigating
Ritual Landscape in the Mongolian Altai" - an archaeological, anthropological, and
art historical investigation at the Biluut Petroglyph Complex in Bayan Olgi, Mongolia.
Through the use of two fields seasons of video footage and seven field seasons of
photos, the film seeks to provide visual and scholarly information about the wide
variety of petroglyphs, burial mounds, standing stones, and other archaeological features
being documented and excavated, the nomadic pastoral cultures of the region (a history
which extends from the present day to pre-Bronze age eras), the region's geography
and geology as a context which shaped these cultures and their practices and products,
and the techniques and methodologies specifically employed by project members.